Boston US District Judge George O’Toole Jr. said he would pause a deadline requiring all federal employees to either take the buyout offer or return to their offices for work.

A judge extended a freeze on President Donald Trump’s buyout offer to federal civilian employees in a hearing Monday, after pushing back last week’s deadline for more than 2 million employees to decide whether to take resignation packages with pay through September—part of Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s bid to shrink the federal workforce.

A federal judge has for now extended a pause on the deadline set by the Trump administration for federal workers to accept a deferred resignation offer and temporarily prohibited the government from soliciting more so-called buyouts.